Nintendo winning in US

The Wii sold 338,000 units throughout May, which was more than both the 155,000 Xbox 360s and 82,000 PS3s put together.

The domination slid with a vengeance into the handheld market, where DS shifted a meaty 423,000 units - just shy of doubling the PSP 221,000 total.

And just like in Japan, that elderly PS2 proved it had more selling power than both Microsoft's and Sony's next-generation machines, pushing out sales of 188,000. The total hardware figures across the US shot up by 79 per cent during the month, netting the hardware monster a filling USD 221 million lunch.

The excellent Pokémon Diamond stole top billing in the games charts with 331,000 copies shifted, followed closely by Mario Party 8 (314,000), Spider-Man 3 for PS2 (249,000) and Pokémon Pearl (238,00). Wii Play (227,000) was at number five.

Xbox 360 dominated the second half of the top ten, with Forza Motorsport 2 (217,000) at number six and platform-specific versions of Guitar Hero II (184,000) and Spider-Man 3 (140,000) at seven and eight.

Rounding out the chart were another 360 game, Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (138,000), and the PS2 version of Guitar Hero II (131,000).